Within the past 16 days, Jalen Hurts and Lamar Jackson agreed to new, massive long-term contracts that reset the top of the quarterback market.

The assumption is that Justin Herbert and Joe Burrow will eventually leapfrog Jackson ($52 million per year) as the top-paid quarterback. While there are some slight differences in QB contracts -- four versus five years, cash flow, etc. -- for the most part, with a quarterback's first extension, we see the latest signee get a similar deal to previous ones with a few million sprinkled on top to make him the highest-paid at the position. While all the Jackson contract details haven't yet been reported, the early figures suggest it was similar to Hurt's deal, with a boost in the figures along the way.

With that logic, we could presume that the Chargers and Bengals would use the Hurts and Jackson contracts as a blueprint for getting deals done with Herbert and Burrow, respectively.

Asked Tuesday on SiriusXM NFL Radio about how those recent deals affected his negotiations with Herbert's reps, Chargers general manager Tom Telesco suggested not much, Kevin Patra of NFL.com reports.

"Any time there is a contract signed at that position it's going to come up in conversation," Telesco said. "I wouldn't say there is any quarterback contract out there that is a blueprint -- I wouldn't say that at all. But like anything else, there'll be contracts that'll be talked about, and we'll cherry-pick some things out of that contract we like. The agent will cherry-pick some things out of that contract that he likes. But in the end, we'll get to a compromise at some point. Something that works for everybody."

Telesco said he doesn't have a timetable to get a deal done with Herbert but isn't fretting a deadline.

"I don't know when it will get done," he said. "I don't really have a timeframe for it, to be honest with you. But we'll get there."

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